#well according to our country she's legal now

[phossiii]

｡𖦹°‧⭑ monsters: chapter ten

synopsis: batman comes for a visit. and phosphorus makes a rather "heartfelt" confession.

cw: reader is a monster, mature themes, violence, profanity, innuendos, phosphorus is phosphorus

a/n: anon... this is for you ;) you know who u are

One month later.

"Let me get this straight... you want to stay here in Belle Reve?"

"Yes."

"And you don't want to go back to Arkham?"

"Nope."

Taking in a deep inhale, Batman let out a long exhale through his nose.

"I don't suppose this has something to do with Alexander Sartorius?"

"Whaaaaat? What makes you say that?"

His brows flattened, and you realized his gaze wasn't on you, but rather on something outside of the window behind you.

Warily, you turned around, only to see Phosphorus fighting against a swarm of guards trying to detain him.

"You're not taking her back to Arkham, Batman!" he exclaimed, using his head to bang against the glass since his hands were cuffed behind his back. "I'll burn this whole place down!"

Your eyes shot wide.

"Don't say that, you idiot! They'll add to your time!"

"I don't think a few extra years is doing much to his triple life-sentence..." Batman assured in a monotone.

You could practically hear the judgement in his voice, its presence distinguishable from a mile away.

With a sigh, you turned around, leaning back in your chair and crossing your arms over your chest.

"Alright... maybe it does have something to do with him... so what?"

"He's psychotic."

"It wasn't too long ago that the shrinks at Arkham thought I was psychotic."

"Demonic possession is not recognized by any court in this country. It was either that or be declared as legally insane. And if that were to have happened, they would've—"

"Locked me up and threw away the key? Believe me, I know."

With a huff, you slumped slightly in your chair, your gaze falling to the floor, before slowly gliding up to him.

"He's charming."

"Most psychopaths are."

"Do you think I would be anywhere near him if I thought he was a threat to me?"

"Love can make sane people do irrational things, (y/n). I've seen it before, and I've seen the road it leads to."

"I am not Harley Quinn."

"And he's not Joker?"

"This seems very hypocritical considering you-know-who..."

At the mention of Selina, Batman cleared his throat, quickly shifting the conversation by sliding a manila folder across the table.

"This is not what I came here to talk about."

Glancing at the file, your eyes quickly landed on the JL insignia printed boldly on the cover.

"...You're joking."

"I think you would be a good addition to our ranks."

"You gonna open a Belle Reve chapter of the Justice League? Start recruiting inmates?"

"You're not an inmate. You haven't committed a crime."

"I've murdered and cannibalized hundreds of men, women, and children."

"That wasn't your crime."

"Oh, yes, civilian! Let me save you from this burning building! Oh, no! I bit your arm off. Try again next week?"

"According to your psych evaluation, the demon has repressed herself with no signs of returning in the near future."

"Mahalat may be docile now, but I can't promise that when the stakes get high, she won't return to her old ways," you stated, seriously. "I may have placated her into not eating everything in sight, but that doesn't mean she won't eat period. And with the Justice League's no-kill motto, I'm sure I'd be nothing but a social pariah."

"You shouldn't have to spend your life behind bars because of the mistakes your parents made."

Slowly, a small smile cracked onto your lips, heart warmed by the hero's declaration.

Batman had always been so kind to you, no matter how frightening or menacing you could be.

He made it a point to make sure you were well-taken care of, covering everything from your legal fees to your original, self-admitted stay at Arkham.

He was a gentleman—with nothing but your best interests in mind—and the kindest person you had ever met.

"I'm a danger to the public, Bats... And myself," you started, softly, resting a careful, reddened hand over his gloved one. "If staying in here means I don't harm another innocent person, then I'll do it, no questions asked."

Expression firming, you stood from your seat.

"But I'm no hero."

Memories flashed behind your eyes, images of dead bodies, half-eaten limbs, screaming children.

You were far from innocent in this whole endeavor.

"The people I've hurt... the lives I've taken... that can't be redeemed by saving cats from tress..." you stated, seriously. "Each and every one of them deserves justice... and I'll be damned if I get off scot-free."

Unable to catch it, a stray tear rolled down your cheek, forcing Batman to stand up.

"So don't worry about me, alright? I'm sure you've got more important things to be doing than checking up on some—"

Before you could even finish your sentence, you were enveloped in a hug.

A surprisingly warm, surprisingly tender hug.

From Batman.

'No. Way.'

You could hear Phosphorus going absolutely ballistic in the background, shouting something along the lines of "Get your hands off her!" as he beat against the glass.

But you were too taken aback to even notice.

Just as quickly, as he came, Batman pulled away, resting a comforting hand on your shoulder.

"You're a good person, (y/n)... Don't torture yourself with the past."

And with that, he picked up his file and exited the room, enduring a few seconds of beratement from Phosphorus before making it past and continuing on down the hall.

Exiting yourself, you were instantly bombarded with questions by your irradiated lover.

"What did he say? Is he taking you to Arkham? How soon? We have time to make an escape plan? Waller won't let this happen, right?"

"I'm staying here, Alex," you giggled, amused. "I'm not going anywhere."

"Oh, thank, God."

"Alright, lovebirds. Chow hall. Now," one of the guards barked, quickly un-cuffing the man before shoving him toward the entrance to the dining room, allowing you to walk over.

"Why the hell did he give you a hug?" Phosphorus asked, muttering a few curses at the guard under his breath as he rubbed his wrists. "Bastard's known for being a hard-ass, but the moment he comes around you all of a sudden he feels like handing out hugs?"

You chuckled, entertained by his jealousy.

"You're crazy."

"I'm right," he corrected.

"Y'know, I never took you for the possessive type."

"I don't like people touching what's mine."

At that, you stopped in your tracks, raising a brow as you poked a finger in his chest.

"And what about you? You have this my my my, mine mine mine thing going on. But what about me? Are you mine? Or is this ownership a one-way street?"

"'Course I'm yours, doll face," he answered, smoothly, as if it was the simplest thing in the world, sending a ripple of warmth through your stomach. "I thought that was a given."

"Alex, how the hell is that a given?"

"If I say you're mine, it's obvious that the same goes for me to you."

"No. Not obvious at all."

"It's totally obvious!"

"Nope... but now that I know, I wanna hear you say it."

"You wanna hear me say it?"

"Yup."

"And you wanna call me possessive?"

"I can always ask G.I."

"Yeah, good luck getting anything outta him."

"Leaving..."

"I'm yours," he caved, quickly grabbing you by the wrist and pulling you back. "Your guy, your man, I still don't give a shit what you wanna call it."

He let out a quiet sigh, lowering his voice so only you could hear.

"I'm yours. And you get to touch me and hold me and kiss me whenever you like... in exchange for mind-blowing sex."

You grinned, giving him a knowing nudge.

It sounded even better when he said it...

"See? Now was that so hard?"

"On the contrary, I think I felt an artery harden."

"Asshole!"

"You know you love me~"

"Fuck off."

"There she is."

[coochiequeens]

Russia gave her a harsher sentence for placing stickers in a grocery store then they do men who kill women.

17 Nov 2023

Russian artist Alexandra Skochilenko has been sentenced to jail for seven years after being found guilty of spreading “false information” about the Russian military by replacing a handful of supermarket price tags with messages criticising the war in Ukraine.

The 33-year-old, known as Sasha, is one of thousands of Russians to be detained, fined or jailed for speaking out against Moscow’s invasion of its neighbour amid an escalating crackdown on free speech and opposition to President Vladimir Putin.

Skochilenko was arrested in her native St Petersburg in April 2022, after an elderly customer at the supermarket found the slogans on the price tags and notified the police.

“The Russian army bombed an arts school in Mariupol. Some 400 people were hiding in it from the shelling,” one read, in reference to Russia’s brutal siege of the southern Ukrainian city. Another said, “Russian conscripts are being sent to Ukraine. Lives of our children are the price of this war.”

Judge Oksana Demiasheva delivered the verdict on Thursday hours after Skochilenko, who has a congenital heart defect and coeliac disease, had made a final statement to the court, asking for compassion and to be set free.

As well as the prison term, the artist was banned from using the internet for three years.

Skochilenko, wearing a colourful T-shirt decorated with a large red heart, reacted with shock to the sentence, covering her face and wiping away tears.

Supporters shouted “shame” and “we’re with you Sasha”, the AFP news agency reported.

Skochilenko’s lawyers left without giving any comment.

Skochilenko’s arrest came about a month after authorities adopted a law effectively criminalising any public expression about the war that deviated from the Kremlin’s official line.

Human rights group Memorial – now banned in Russia – said police spent 10 days interrogating supermarket staff and inspecting security camera footage before arresting the artist.

“They sometimes give less for murder than for five price tags in a supermarket,” Boris Vishnevsky, a politician linked to the opposition Yabloko party, told AFP.

“Hopefully, someday, the pendulum will turn the other way.”

Skochilenko was accused of committing what the state prosecutor described as a serious crime out of “political hatred” towards Russia. He had asked for her to be jailed for eight years.

Skochilenko admitted to swapping the tags but denied that the text written on them was false. She said she was a pacifist who valued human life above all else.

“How weak is our prosecutor’s faith in our state and society if he thinks our statehood and public safety can be ruined by five little pieces of paper?” she said in court.

“Everyone sees and knows that you are not judging a terrorist. You’re not trying an extremist. You’re not even trying a political activist. You’re judging a pacifist,” she said.

Skochilenko’s friends and supporters said the verdict was a disgrace [Olga Maltseva/AFP]

Amnesty International condemned the verdict.

“Her persecution has become synonymous with the absurdly cruel oppression faced by Russians openly opposing their country’s criminal war,” it said in a statement.

Memorial has designated Skochilenko a political prisoner and has launched a campaign calling for her release.

She has already been in detention for nearly 19 months, meaning that her overall term will be reduced by more than two years, since every day served in a pre-trial detention centre counts as 1.5 days of time served in a regular penal colony.

But she has struggled in custody due to pre-existing health conditions, and her need for a gluten-free diet, according to her lawyers and her partner.

According to OVD-Info, a prominent rights group that monitors political arrests and provides legal aid, a total of 19,834 Russians have been arrested between February 24 2022, when Russia began its invasion, and late October 2023 for speaking out or demonstrating against the war.

Also on Thursday, opposition politician Vladimir Milov was convicted in absentia of spreading false information about the army and sentenced to eight years. Milov, who was once Russia’s deputy energy minister and is now an ally of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has left the country.

[onepiece-oc-archives]

is is ever mentioned when you're officially an adult in the one piece world? because Luffy sets sail at 17 and Koby joins the marines with 16, so perhaps you're considered an adult by that age? But according to Sabo you become a world noble at 18? (aren't you one either way if you're born into a noble family?) But then again, if Sabo wasn't (as some say) planned from the beginning, perhaps one should not place much value in this reasoning - idk. It rather feels like you're considered an adult at 16/17... since the other younger strawhats were also more or less on their own out their (or in Sanji's case having an actual job)... and then again there's Bonney who is 12 by the time she arrives in Sabaody with her own crew so... then there's that^^ (but she might be an expection since she usually looks like she's an adult)

Hi, thanks a lot for your question!

I don't think there's a set age for when you're an adult and in a lot of cases it probably doesn't really matter. Why? Because we're in a world of pirates and many children and teenagers have to learn how to fend for themselves early on, that's just the cruel reality. I'll try to give some ideas regarding the examples you gave and then name my headcanons for what I think the more "official" age limits might be.

First of all, I'd say Bonney is outright disqualified because of her devil fruit. One Piece doesn't really have a form of ID, so they can't check her age, but even if they could... you can't tell me Bonney wouldn't have a fake ID or get her way either way because she's a pirate.

Luffy setting sail at 17 is most likely because Ace sat sail at 17. Also, Luffy is Luffy, so he probably doesn't care about age limits.

I wouldn't say that Sanji having a job is really an issue here because cabin boys are common amongst pirates and so are kids helping out chefs in kitchens. Also, he begged for that job on his first ship and then got given the job by Zeff when they opened Baratie. They did open Baratie together, even though Sanji was a kid, so I can't see him not getting a job here. Who knows if he actually got paid either. I don't think we can apply our definition of what constitutes a job in this case.

Now with Sabo and Koby is where it gets interesting, so this is where I'm gonna get into my own headcanons.

I think the One Piece world might be working with similar age limits/requirements as we do here in Germany. That means you're legally considered of age when you're 18, but you already get to make some important legal decisions when you're 16, very rarely also as early as 14, usually with a legal guardian's approval.

Why do I think this is the case? Being of age with 18 lines up with what you said about Sabo and becoming a Celestial Dragon. Yes, you're born a Celestial Dragon but you probably only get the full privileges of one when you're of age - so, most likely 18. Koby joining the military 16 wouldn't work here in Germany, but it's only one year off and I'm pretty sure the bar used to be lower - which, One Piece takes place in a more historical-esque setting, so we can probably assume 16 would be the minimum age requirement. Especially with the Marines being this present in day-to-day life and supported by the Government.

Why did I say Germany instead of any other country with the same age limit? Well, on one hand because I live here, but also because of one specific reason: Alcohol. Usopp (at least in the live action) got completely wasted at Baratie and I'm pretty sure Baratie is a place that would check your ID if you wanted a drink (at least if it's running normally, not like when Koby and Helmeppo showed up). Usopp is 16 but he still managed to get wasted, most famously off that huge bowl of fruit punch or whatever that was. I'm very sure that that stuff would fall into the category of drinks you'd be allowed to get at 16 in Germany. Light alcohol like wine and beer at 16, hard stuff at 18. Some more hints towards it being like that in the One Piece world too are that Zoro and Nami had no problems getting rum, which is hard alcohol, and they're 19 and 18 respectively. Helmeppo was also easily able to order shots for himself and Koby and he's 20 at that time. What we can definitely be sure of is that the limit isn't 21.

Whatever the age requirements are, I believe that, while they would be universal for anything involving the Marines or the Government and probably be enforced too, in the realm of pirates they don't really matter. Like, as a bartender, are you really going to deny a pirate crew some vodka for their 14-year-old cabin boy? It's either you give alcohol to a kid and maybe pay a fine or you lose a limb - I think the answer is very clear. Different kingdoms could probably adjust the age requirements to their liking, but I don't think they could lower them too much. But I don't know, that's just speculation at this point.

All in all, being in adult in the world of One Piece probably depends a lot more on the respect people have for you and how independent you are than your age.

I hope these rambles helped at all - have a lovely day!

[mightyflamethrower]

The Supreme Court Is About To Hear A Major Child Gender Transition Case. Here’s What To Know.

The Supreme Court on December 4 will hear oral arguments in a case dealing with Tennessee’s law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children — and it promises to be one of the most significant cases the court has looked at this term.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R.) signed the much-discussed Senate Bill 1 into law on March 22, 2023, which went into effect on July 1, 2023. The bill bans doctors or health care providers from performing so-called “gender-affirming” surgeries or hormonal procedures on minors, including surgery, puberty blockers, and hormones.

The bill followed a September 2022 investigation into Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) by the The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, who exposed VUMC’s gender transition procedures for children and shocking attitudes towards gender transitions in general. Walsh and The Daily Wire found that the hospital regarded transgender procedures as a “big money maker” and pressured employees to ignore their “religious beliefs” on transgender issues or face “consequences.”

“The people of Tennessee, through their elected representatives, took measured action with Senate Bill 1 to protect kids from irreversible, unproven medical procedures,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in an October statement. “Lawmakers recognized that there is little to no credible evidence to justify the serious risks these procedures present to youth and joined a growing number of European countries in restricting their use on minors with gender-identity issues.”

The ACLU led a variety of left-wing legal groups in suing Tennessee in April 2023 to block the law from going into effect, calling these transgender procedures “medically necessary gender-affirming care for Tennessee’s transgender youth.” That claim is based on activist assertions that young people suffering from gender dysphoria may commit suicide if they do not have access to transgender hormones or surgeries.

Recent research has shown that, contrary to such claims, these procedures actually increase the likelihood that minors will attempt suicide. According to an April study, “gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide-attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”

Yet the ACLU and their allies are suing Tennessee on behalf of a Nashville, Tennessee couple and their 15-year-old son, who identifies as a girl, as well as a doctor from Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Susan Lacy.

“It was incredibly painful watching my child struggle before we were able to get her the life-saving healthcare she needed. We have a confident, happy daughter now, who is free to be herself and she is thriving,” the ACLU’s client, Samantha Williams, said earlier this year of her trans-identifying son.

“I am so afraid of what this law will mean for her,” she said. “We don’t want to leave Tennessee, but this legislation would force us to either routinely leave our state to get our daughter the medical care she desperately needs or to uproot our entire lives and leave Tennessee altogether. No family should have to make this kind of choice.”

Skrmetti’s office argues that states have governed the practice of medicine within their borders since the United States was founded, pointing out that it is states who license doctors and regulate medical practices, which includes restricting the administration of drugs. The Tennessee lawmakers who passed Senate Bill 1 used that power to stop the use of hormonal and surgical procedures for minor gender transition procedures, Skrmetti’s office said.

More than 20 other states have passed similar laws protecting children, they pointed out.

“The federal government, in its arguments to the Supreme Court, puts its faith in a false and manufactured consensus that ignores the many doctors, States, and countries who have looked at the evidence and determined these treatments are too risky for kids,” Skrmetti added. “The Constitution does not prevent the States from regulating the practice of medicine where hot-button social issues are concerned. People who disagree with restrictions on irreversible pediatric procedures for gender transition are free to advocate for change through state elections.”

The ACLU’s case will be argued by Chase Strangio, a woman who identifies as a transgender man. The ACLU has advertised that Strangio will be the first openly trans-identifying individual to argue a case before the Supreme Court, describing Strangio as “our nation’s leading legal expert on the rights of transgender people, bar none.”

[alexandradel7]

I'm even interested in triggering a person like you. @eternalvoidseeker It's especially pleasant because I'm not really into about this character or the fandom.

Well, it's a shame that grrm would write that would be completely based on the morals of the day. (which he apparently only does in your head)

When for example Catherine de Medici married at 14. I don't understand why it becomes pedo when it's just history and in the public mind of the time it was a common thing for society.

That's not the case now, 5 centuries ago there was such a thing. 15 centuries ago there were things even wilder that society of the time considered normal.

I find it idiotic that I am forced to read that "weirdo paedo" now I am when I talk about the fact that in that medieval 13-14 years marriage and intimacy is common, legal.

And what I have to say is: I consider the modern framework of marriage in civilised countries 16-18 to be ideal and should be so. I am not advocating paedophilia and I am not defending it.

At that time it was believed that a girl grown up as soon as the period began could be a bride. And a little boy could and should watch the chopping off of heads. But it wasn't the best of times and the rules in it, obviously. But it's also obvious that it used to be a common thing for everybody and nobody thought about whether it was right to get married at 12-15 or not. It was a mid-century thing. Which influenced people in a certain way, on the psyche, but the environment considered these things normal and legal - which also means a lot for the person's perception of the world. I find it incredibly idiotic to make that remark and defend myself against that attack when I'm literally saying historical facts and the context of the story in which the characters exist.

I'm saying that for medieval times it was for people - Sansa or any 13-14 year old girl is already a bride. So it wasn't freakin' "illegal paedophilia". Death was kind of a problem too, so people tried to do things quickly. What's complicated about the thought: we don't approve of this order of things now, but in the context of the time it was generally accepted. Doesn't mean it's morally right for our time. But for that time, yes.

I suggest removing all books and paintings by ancient, mid-century artists for the fact that his wife was 14-15. They're paedophiles, it's like looking at Hitler's paintings. It's crazy.

Turn the cheek, isn't that what God taught? Mercy and forgiveness, or are you Old Testament? By the way, Mary was 14 when she married Joseph.

I don't know, hope God is not angry with me for saying that Joseph was not a paedophile, he lived according to the laws of that time and place, 2000 years ago.

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for not divorcing my (30F) husband (30s M), when my boyfriend (30s M) wants me to?

TW for death and cancer.

I know it sounds bad. But I promise, everyone in this situation has the full picture, and there was no cheating or infidelity involved. Some details will be left out or changed for the purpose of anonymity.

We’ll call my boyfriend “Richard,” and my husband “Marty.” Marty and I have a romantic history prior to this situation.

The story starts about 5 years ago. I got pregnant with Richard’s baby. I was not in a relationship with him at the time of conception or birth. Richard has been a great father to our kid the entire time.

During my pregnancy, I was dealing with a lot of difficult emotions, and that showed in my dating life. I was dating Marty for a while, and we were briefly engaged, but I broke off the engagement because he had been lying to me about some important stuff, and I was having feelings for Richard (yay pregnancy hormones).

Then Richard and I dated for a bit - he proposed WAY too soon, and he broke up with me after I rejected him.

After my son was born, there was some back and forth feelings within this love triangle for a bit, but no dating. Ultimately Marty and I got back together, and got married about a year later.

And then Marty died.

I have spent the past 4 years getting over his death. I made some big moves in my career, I moved back in with family because I couldn’t afford rent without Marty, my mom got and beat cancer, my dad’s career got huge, I learned how to coparent with Richard, and I came to terms with being a widow.

I started dating again last year. After my first couple breakups, Richard and I chose to give a relationship a try. We were good co-parents, we were better communicators than last time, and we cared about each other deeply. There’ve been some ups and downs, with our kid having some behavioral issues, and some external factors adding stress, but he was going to propose to me.

And then Marty came back from the dead.

Well, really what happened is that Richard found out that Marty wasn’t actually dead, and brought him back.

Turns out that Marty had been in an accident, lost his memory, and had been living halfway across the country under a new identity. His body had somehow been swapped for a John Doe somewhere between the accident and the morgue - I don’t know exactly how it happened or how the coroner didn’t catch it.

Anyway, Richard flew Marty back out to us. He didn’t remember any of us. We tried for a couple weeks to help him regain his memory, but nothing was working.

Right as he decided to leave back for his existing life, he bumped his head and remembered everything.

So now I’m stuck. I have a fantastic boyfriend, who I was going to marry. But according to my lawyer, I’m still legally married to Marty. And I do still love him - his death didn’t make me stop loving him. But he’s also not exactly the same person - he has the new identity mixed in.

I told my boyfriend that I needed a beat - I have always held the sanctity of marriage in high regards, so I feel like I have a moral obligation to Marty, which makes signing the divorce papers hard.

My family and friends all say I should divorce him and stay with Richard. I signed the divorce papers and put them in the mailbox this afternoon with my friend, but after she left I got freaked out and took them back. My friend told Richard that I’d sent them, and when he found out that I hadn’t, it really hurt him. He pulled out the engagement ring and put it on the desk and basically told me the ball was in my court, and left.

Tonight, when I still didn’t have an answer, he broke up with me.

So am I so wrong for not being able to divorce my husband at the drop of a hat?

[lover-of-mine]

I hate that Taylor had to push to get the venue to do their job properly but I’m relief she did because I have two friends going tonight in barricade and after yesterday i was worried , I really hate someone had to die for this to happen

I know Taylor would've pushed for something today anyway, with the way that she was on stage demanding water for everyone, but the venue would have to do something anyway, because our minister of justice and public safety declared an emergency sanction that from today and on you will have to be allowed into venues with water and in cases of extreme heat, like today (and honestly the whole week, are in an EXTREME heat wave and Rio is already one of the hottest places in the country in a regular day), they will have to offer easy access to water and cooling stations, they are calling them "hydration islands", so they could get a fine if there are still complaints, so right now they are legally obliged to provide water. There's actually a federal law being drafted that will probably be voted on soon that will force any show from now on to provide free water, but the fact that someone had to die for this to happen, I don't even have words really.

But the ridiculous thing is that I was seeing people talking about the show, and specifically why they started to ask Taylor for water, is that apparently the venue ran out of water to sell somewhere between evermore and reputation, so there were still hours left on the show and most people weren't even finding water so they could buy it. And I really wanna fight someone because they weren't selling bottles, they were selling cups, that's the usual in these types of things, but the cups have 200 ml (6.7 oz according to google) and they were being sold for 8 reais. With 7 reais I can buy a pack with 12 of those cups at my local supermarket. Twelve. They were selling one cup for the price of twelve on one of the hottest days of the year. Apparently, the feel-like temperature inside the stadium yesterday was reaching 60ºc or 140ºf in the hottest times of the day, it was still up to 40ºc (104ºf) when Taylor started performing. The situation is infuriating.

I do hope your friends are well and getting hydrated and they had a good time despite the issues tho.

[alexbkrieger13]

She doesn't pull any punches

https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/pQ4oPX/fotbolls-vm-kan-stoppas-i-flera-lander-efter-infantinos-krav

Fagerlund: Infantino's demands are quite bizarre

"Give us the money - otherwise the window will be black!".

A Fifa president refuses to broadcast the Women's World Cup in some of Europe's biggest countries unless the championship is valued as highly as the men's.

It sounds like something long-awaited but is actually quite bizarre.

- I also feel like a woman!

Nobody can have forgotten Gianni Infantino's bizarre monologue at a press conference during the men's World Cup in Qatar.

The Fifa president claimed to be Arab, African, gay, guest worker... and woman as well. The last one was added a bit quickly when he realized that it might be a good idea to mention half the world's population.

Infantino is reminiscent of the scandal-ridden representative Sepp Blatter. Two relatively detached men who - according to themselves - are football's answer to, say, Nelson Mandela.

Blatter dreamed of being remembered as a peacemaker in the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Infantino? In addition to ironing out morally questionable moneybags, he has now found a new calling in life.

"To be very clear, it is our moral and legal obligation not to undersell the Women's World Cup," the Swiss-Italian said in a statement.

Quite upsetting actually

Fifa is said to have rejected tenders that were significantly lower compared to the rights to the men's WC and calls the whole thing "unacceptable". With just two months to go until the championships in New Zealand and Australia, it risks remaining black in the window for millions of Europeans.

Of course it sounds nice with a Fifa president who finally stands up for women's football. Clearly, the great powers England, Germany, France, Italy and Spain should cough up more money if they want to broadcast this summer's WC!

Instead, it is another example of Gianni Infantino living in his own rosy fantasy world. To quote Australian Maya Dodd (former Fifa board member):

- It is actually quite upsetting.

Was treated like a bisak for years

What Infantino forgets is that Fifa's half-hearted treatment of women's football over the years is the main reason for the low bids. Until recently, the product was considered an afterthought to men's football, hence the championships were long sold as a package.

Rights holders bid for the men's World Cup and got the ladies in the bargain, as did the sponsors.

Fifa claims that it is a non-profit organization that works to develop the sport worldwide. In 1991, a first women's world championship was (reluctantly) organized, where minimal sums were spent.

In fact, the ladies didn't even have any prize money to play for until 2007. Twelve years later, during the World Cup in France 2019, the prize pool was ten percent compared to the men's. The reason was that it was simply not the ladies who pulled in the stealers.

Step in the right direction but..

The story behind it matters now that Infantino is gasping that the broadcasters don't see the true value of women's football. Why pay as much for the Women's World Cup as the Men's World Cup when the former championship has been thrown in as a kind of freebie all these years?

Naturally, the Women's World Cup lacks the same high attraction value, largely due to Fifa's own management.

Something Infantino actually admitted in passing, although he doesn't seem to have understood the contradiction in it all.

It must be said that Fifa has started to invest more in women. This summer is the first time that the women's conditions, for example in terms of accommodation, are reasonably equal compared to the men's WC in Qatar. The prize pool is $110 million, barely 25 percent of the men's, but still a big step in the right direction.

Is naive

To think that is enough to convince broadcasters to spend huge sums on a championship - which is also played at inconvenient times for European viewers - is naive.

The UK's situation is relatively unique as the Women's World Cup is one of the government's 'crown jewels'. This means that the championship must be broadcast on open channels that everyone can take part in, which reduces the number of potential rights holders.

If the state-owned BBC and commercial ITV (which have shared the 'crown jewels' in recent years) had really grossly undervalued this summer's championship, it is likely that Channel 4, for example, would have already outbid.

Thus, it is difficult to know what Fifa considers to be "unacceptably" low.

Trying to accelerate returns

Infantino is trying to accelerate the return on a product that until now has not been considered serious. The president cannot patiently build the reputation of women's football, but demands immediate profit money through threats.

He misses the whole point. Maybe unconsciously, probably consciously. Women's football is moving along at a leisurely pace to create a stable platform, a returning audience.

The other day, 60,000 spectators made their way to The Emirates to watch Arsenal take on Wolsburg in the Champions League. 70,000 sat at Camp Nou during the meeting between Barcelona and Chelsea.

35 million people in England and Germany sat in front of the European Championship final last year.

Fifa will come to an agreement with the television companies in the end, but Gianni Infantino must realize that the highest priority cannot be bringing in more money for him and his organization. It's about making up for all the years of neglect and showing sponsors, other power holders and viewers - in black and white - that women's football is actually worth their time and money.

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IT IS NOT A PSYOP

Just Stop Oil: Is the UK-based climate movement in the pocket of oil billionaires (on jpost)

Aileen Getty is one of several heirs to the $5.4 billion Getty fortune, which the family acquired through their oil company, founded in 1942. While the company no longer exists today, having been sold in the early 2000s, the money certainly still does, and so people have started questioning if, in reality, Aileen Getty still has active links to the oil industry.

However, unless Getty is investing in oil ventures so secretive that there are no records of them available to the public, the opposite appears to be true. In 2012, she founded the Aileen Getty Foundation, which, according to the foundation's objectives, "supports a wide range of local and global organizations and initiatives that enhance the environment, our communities and the lives of individuals through innovation, preservation, connection and kindness."

Based on this, it would appear that the heiress to an oil fortune has been using her money to combat the very business in which her family found its fortune.

In 2019, Getty provided the foundational grant to establish CEF and has pledged over half a million dollars to their cause, citing her belief that civil disruption is the only way to make a change on the climate emergency front.

Here’s some actual journalism there about Getty’s involvement with the oil industry.

And from a NY Times article These Groups Want Disruptive Climate Protests. Oil Heirs Are Funding Them.

Sharing these goals with the Climate Emergency Fund is the Equation Campaign. Founded in 2020, it provides financial support and legal defense to people living near pipelines and refineries who are trying to stop fossil fuel expansion, through methods including civil disobedience.

Strikingly, both organizations are backed by oil-fortune families whose descendants feel a responsibility to reverse the harms done by fossil fuels. Aileen Getty, whose grandfather created Getty Oil, helped found the Climate Emergency Fund and has given it $1 million so far.  

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The Equation Campaign started in 2020 with a $30 million pledge, to be distributed over 10 years, from two members of the Rockefeller family, Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert and Peter Gill Case. John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in 1870 and became the country’s first billionaire.

“It’s time to put the genie back in the bottle,” Mr. Case wrote in an email. “I feel a moral obligation to do my part. Wouldn’t you?”  

The statement in the Guardian in 2021:

Fossil fuels made our families rich. Now we want this industry to end by Aileen Getty and Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert

and in comparison the Fox News talking point you’re all regurgitating:

Big Oil heiress funding ‘Just Stop Oil’ group that threw soup on Van Gogh painting

So in summary:

Getty Oil no longer exists, and hasn’t done for 20 odd years.

Aileen Getty had no involvement with the company when was operating, her wealth is inherited.

The Greepoint oil spill took place in 1978.

At this time Aileen Getty was 21, dropping out of university, becoming an anti-war protestor and artist.

She was an AIDS activist in the 80s, and has been an environmental activist for many, many years as well.

There are no public records of her currently, or ever, being involved in the oil industry at all.

Her foundation donates to many environmental causes, including Sea Shepherd, who are the farthest thing from phony.

They also funded the scientists who chained themselves to government buildings not long ago.

Fox News is running many articles about how they are funded by Big Oil, discrediting one of the largest environmentalist action groups out there.

The attack on the art gallery is because they accepted sponsorship from oil companies, which they say is hypocritical as preserving art is pointless when society is due to be destroyed.

This is the same rationale behind the attack on Stonehenge

So maybe you should think about what propaganda you are not immune to.

Just because you don’t like how a particular protest is performed doesn’t make it a psyop for fucks sake.

Omg. Just Stop Oil just broke into the private airfield where Taylor Swift’s private jet was parked and spray painted it orange

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The New York Times

By Eric LiptonMaggie Haberman and Alan Blinder

Jan. 7, 2025

President-elect Donald J. Trump was at the lectern talking through the approaching inauguration of his second term. But across the ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., was a display of the extraordinary way that his family business interests are now fully mixed with his plans for governance of the United States.

Mr. Trump opened the unusual news conference on Tuesday by introducing Hussain Sajwani, the founder and chairman of DAMAC Properties, a Dubai-based real estate firm that partnered with the Trump family a decade ago to build the first Trump-branded golf course in the Middle East.

Now, Mr. Trump said, DAMAC is planning to invest billions of dollars in the United States to build data centers, with the help of Mr. Trump and the federal government, even while DAMAC continues its role as a Trump business partner.

There too in the room at Mar-a-Lago was Steve Witkoff, who is in business with a new crypto company called World Liberty Financial that both Mr. Trump and his sons helped start. Mr. Witkoff, while still working with the crypto company, is already serving as Mr. Trump’s Middle East envoy, and Mr. Witkoff provided an update from the stage on efforts to release Israeli hostages held in Gaza.

Mr. Trump pointed out that one of his sons, Eric Trump, who has been pushing new Trump tower deals in the Middle East, was in the back of the ballroom, as well, on the same day that LIV Golf, the Saudi-financed golf league, disclosed that it intends to host another tournament this year at the Trump National Doral resort near Miami. This means that money tied to the Saudi government will continue to flow to the Trump family, even when Mr. Trump is back in the White House, as LIV Golf is owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

Also on Tuesday, Trump Organization’s other major Middle East business partner, Dar Al Arkan, disclosed that it planned to start building projects in the United States for the first time, according to a report by Reuters. Dar Al Arkan did not respond to a request for comment.

It all comes as Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, recently disclosed that he has raised an additional $1.5 billion from Middle East investors for his private equity company. The firm he started after he left his position in the White House in 2020 now has more than $4.5 billion, mostly from oil-rich sovereign wealth funds.

“This will be the golden age of America — this is the golden age of America,” Mr. Trump said, as he was wrapping up his more than hourlong news conference, not referring to his own family business operations, but his confidence on the future path of the nation. “We’re going to have a great country again.”

The scale of overlap between Mr. Trump’s family members and their business interests, and the government he will lead, all showcased on the same day, underscores how unprecedented the second Trump presidency and the potential for conflicts of interest will be.

“There was at least some concern from the Trump administration during the first term about the optics of financial intermingling between Trump’s businesses and the government,” said Adav Noti, executive director of Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit ethics group. “What we are seeing with the incoming administration is no longer that kind of concern about those optics. There is an impression that the handcuffs are off.”

Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, rejected the criticism.

“President Trump’s family members are highly respected, intelligent individuals who love our country,” she said in a statement. “They have always played an integral role in President Trump’s campaigns and his first administration and have made many personal sacrifices to help their father make America great again.”

Ms. Leavitt also pointed to Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, who secured millions of dollars worth of contracts while his father was vice president from overseas business executives.

The Trump family has made clear since the election that it does not intend to forswear new international deals as it did in 2017, meaning it will continue to announce new ventures in spots around the world, Eric Trump said in an interview with The New York Times last month.

The family still plans to announce an ethics plan that will include hiring an outside legal adviser that will review these deals, in an attempt to avoid special treatment by companies that may be seeking favors from the United States government. It also has said that it will not be doing new deals directly with foreign governments while Mr. Trump is president.

But the list of new deals has accelerated in recent months as Mr. Trump is poised to take office.

Dar Al Arkan, a Saudi-based real-estate company, disclosed since the middle of last year that it will build new Trump-named towers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and in Dubai, in addition to a previously planned project in Oman. Dar Al Arkan and its Dar Global subsidiary are private companies, but they have close ties to the Saudi government.

Mr. Kushner, in a podcast last month, disclosed for the first time that he had received $1.5 billion worth of new funding from the sovereign wealth funds of Qatar and Abu Dhabi. He said he also had a commitment from Saudi Arabia, which had previously agreed to deliver his firm $2 billion, to extend their agreement to 2029, two years later than the original date.

Mr. Kushner, in the interview, said this move means he avoided conflicts of interest, as he said he had negotiated these new commitments before his father in law was re-elected.

“I made very clear to them that in the event that Trump was elected, that they should not expect anything from me for that,” Mr. Kushner said during the interview, with the podcaster Patrick O’Shaughnessy.

Mr. Kushner and his firm declined on Tuesday to comment on the record about the matter. To date, Affinity Partners, his company, has invested about $2 billion of its funds into firms, including about $129 million into Phoenix Holdings, an Israeli financial services company that has seen its stock value surge since the investment by Affinity.

The plan Mr. Trump announced on Tuesday while at Mar-a-Lago centered around DAMAC, which he said intended to invest $20 billion in the United States “over a very short period of time.” The investment apparently focused on data centers that are needed to handle fast-growing demands coming from cloud computing and artificial intelligence industries.

“We’re very, very excited, now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to the U.S.,” Mr. Sajwani said, after Mr. Trump invited him to the stage at the start of his news conference. “For the last four years, we’ve been waiting for this moment.”

DAMAC and the Trump Organization are already in business together in Dubai with a first golf course and have plans to build a second, although this project has long been delayed. But in the United States, Mr. Trump said, he intends to use the federal government’s powers to help his family business partner, by offering DAMAC “expedited reviews” of any federal environmental questions that might emerge related to the company’s plans.

“We’re going to move them quickly through the environmental process,” Mr. Trump said, adding that a similar benefit would be offered to any company planning to invest $1 billion in the United States, although DAMAC is the first to get such a promise.

Because Mr. Trump is so close to his children, moves they make attract attention regardless of whether there is a component related to the Trump Organization. For instance, three of Mr. Trump’s incoming government officials posted photos to social media of themselves traveling with Donald Trump Jr., a key political voice with his father, to Greenland, which the president-elect has said he wants the U.S. government to acquire for strategic purposes. Donald Trump Jr. is not joining his father’s government, and did not appear to have held any meetings related to any kind of development.

But the LIV Golf announcement on Tuesday means that the Saudi-financed tournament will be back at Mr. Trump’s Doral resort in April, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars at the venue.

The event also drives thousands of ticket-buying fans to the resort, filling up hotel restaurants and guest rooms during the multiday event. LIV events also boost the international profile of the more than a dozen Trump family golf resorts around the world.

“What they’re doing with LIV is very important,” Mr. Trump told The Times at the 2022 competition at Doral, which as of this year will have been used four times by LIV Golf for tournaments. “They’re putting a lot of effort into it and a lot of money into it, as you see.”

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Report: Over 100 'Unaccompanied' Children Found At U.S.-Mexico Border In Past Week

A migrant child sits in the back of a border patrol vehicle after being apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border protection officers on June 24, 2024 in Ruby, Arizona.

Over 100 children, hailing from foreign nations and traveling without their parents or any guardian concerned for their safety, have been found crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since November 24th, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

“I want the American people to see the impacts of this current border situation that we’ve been in for the last three plus years, and how it impacts unaccompanied children [that] are coming across that border,” stated Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez.

Oliver noted that border agents have encountered many unaccompanied children, ranging from two-years-old to 17 years old, who they believe were likely smuggled and brought to the border by criminal organizations.

“It really shows the inner workings of how these criminals are operating, also how some of these family members, if they are family members in fact, how they even allow their child to make this long, precarious journey to the United States at the hands of criminals,” he added. “There is no protocols in place to protect unaccompanied children.”

“Because of our broken border policies, many parents make the impossible decision to send their children to the US for safety because they know they will face removal if they enter as a family united,” stated Amy Fischer, the Director of Refugee and Migrant Rights at Amnesty International USA.

“It is because of broken border and immigration policies that separate families, make it nearly impossible for families to reunite in the U.S., and block families from exercising their human right to seek safety together,” she continued.

The report follows after a 10-year-old boy was found unaccompanied on Thanksgiving Day, as well as another 4-year-old girl, who authorities originally believed was two-years-old.

The young girl traveling alone was found by border agents with only a name and phone number to contact her parents. She traveled from El Salvador into the United States, claiming that her mother paid a smuggler to get her into the country.

“I found a coyote [smuggler], and I paid for them to bring her to me,” stated “Patty,” the girl’s mother, who is currently residing in South Carolina.

“She came alone. It was just the coyote. The last time I talked to my daughter was Saturday, and I haven’t heard anything since they told me the coyote had already handed her over to another coyote, but I don’t know anything else about her,” she continued.

The mother added that she believes her daughter is still in the custody of U.S. immigration.

The Biden administration has reportedly lost track of 32,000 unaccompanied migrant minors who failed to show up to court dates from 2019 through 2023. Meanwhile, Democrats and left-wing political pundits claim that it’s a paperwork issue and not a “missing” kids issue, seemingly gaslighting the public into thinking this topic should not raise concerns.

“This is not a ‘missing kids’ problem; it’s a ‘missing paperwork’ problem,” stated Jonathan Beier, associate director of research and evaluation for the Acacia Center for Justice’s Unaccompanied Children Program, reported by AP News. “All of these factors can explain some of the deficiencies and a conclusion that the children are missing could be very, very premature,” stated Raul Pinto, the deputy legal director for transparency at the American Immigration Council.

Additionally, after Trump’s election win, many conservatives are now ecstatic to see law and order being brought back to the operations and processes surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border, with the help of Tom Homan, Trump’s newly appointed border czar.

“Shame on them,” stated Homan. “Many are going to be in forced labor. Many forced sex trade,” Homan continued, referencing the children. “We need to save these children.”

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Domestic Violence Lawyer In Delhi

In India, the term "domestic violence" usually refers to violence amongst blood relatives, however it can also include abuse by male family members.

Lawful Requirements:

The Protecting Women from Domestic Violence Act of 2005 defines domestic violence lawyer in Delhi. Domestic violence in India was controlled under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code prior to the Domestic violence Act. According to the text, the law was created to protect women from abusive husbands and their families. According to Section 498A of the IPC, it is illegal for the husband or his relatives to harass a woman for dowry. Harassment may manifest as physical or mental. Forced sexual relations may be regarded as harsh, even though marital rape is not illegal in our country. The Indian Penal Code, Section 498A, offers extensive legal action against domestic violence. In contrast to domestic abuse, 498A encompasses any abusive action directed towards women that could push them to take their own lives, cause major injuries, or jeopardize their limbs and general health. Women's emotional, mental, and physical well-being are referred to as their health. Section 498A presents two issues.

The first is that there is no provision in this section that offers compensation or redress to the victim. Second, only married women are covered by Section 498-A. The Domestic Violence Act of 2005 was passed by the Center in order to address these shortcomings.

Indian Domestic Violence Lawyer in Delhi Who Represent Women:

India has a wide range of domestic violence against women, including financial exploitation and verbal, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.

In India, physical abuse is the most prevalent type of domestic violence against women. According to the Domestic Violence Act, domestic violence is defined as any act that results in bodily harm or puts the victim's life, limb, health, or development in danger. Violent acts, unlawful coercion, and criminal intimidation are all part of physical abuse. Women need to receive legal advice from an attorney, and these issues need to be addressed right away.

One type of coercion related to sexuality and reproduction is sexual violence directed towards women. Marital rape is typically regarded as a kind of sexual abuse. Marital rape is not illegal, nevertheless, unless the victim is a minor. Sexual assault is defined as "any sexual abuse that abuses, humiliates, degrades, or otherwise violates the dignity of a woman" by the Domestic Violence Act.

Words or threats used by domestic partners during domestic violence against women in India are considered forms of verbal and emotional abuse. Human rights experts argue that emotional abuse, a prevalent type of domestic violence in India, is a direct result of verbal abuse. A woman's sense of self-worth is negatively impacted when she is subjected to verbal and emotional abuse.

Economic abuse: It was a big step for the government to include economic abuse in the Domestic Violence Act's list of forms of abuse. Denying the victim and her children access to financial resources or assets is a common way to define economic abuse.

Women have the legal right to file for divorce in the event that any of the aforementioned circumstances occur. A domestic violence attorney should be contacted by the person in question. They can take care of all the necessary paperwork and provide expert guidance on how to handle your divorce.

Delhi Domestic Violence Attorneys:

It's simpler to locate leading domestic violence lawyer in Delhi with Sharks of Law. You can communicate with leading attorneys in New Delhi on Sharks of Law in important courts and tribunals, like the Supreme Court, the National Green Tribunal, the New Delhi High Court, APTEL, and others.

The most important components of a lawyer's reputation are his experience and demeanor, which are vital to the outcome and competent handling of your case. Now, before launching a complaint, get advice from a leading domestic violence lawyer in Delhi. The approach used by Sharks of Law attorneys is to first determine your unique legal needs. Before engaging a lawyer, we strongly urge you to discuss your case with one. You'll be able to make wiser legal decisions as a result. You'll save time and money by doing this.

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OneNETnews Investigates: A scandalous right-wing commentator 'Think Before You Sleep' target F*t-Shaming & Acceptance and Cyb*rb*llying combined against freelance independent Californian animator 'Illymation' sparks outrage to deplatforming its video-sharing platform on YouTube [EXCLUSIVE]

(Written by Mitch Williams & Lincoln Albert Loud / Senior Tech Correspondent and Investigative Stringer News Reporter of Nickelodeon News)

TRIGGER WARNING: The following investigative news article discusses emotionally sensitive and offensive content related to online cyberbullying, fat shaming and harassment. Consider to exercise with caution, and prioritize your emotional well-being while reading this I.N.R. If you feel triggered or distressed by such topics, our news readers at OneNETnews recommends to seek support to yourself ASAP, or to click off from reading further in this article. Reader's discretion is STRONGLY ADVISED.

HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA -- In the late-Q1 of 2024… An online cyberbullying incident involving a suspected right-wing male conservative commentator by the name 'Think Before You Sleep', and a freelance Californian animator victim 'Illymation' brought out the crippling effects of fat shaming, fat acceptance & harassment. The issue arose when TBYS recently ranted over, in her real life cartoon story on fatphobia that was created by a YouTuber's victim, literarlly accusing her of glorifying minor or medium-level obesity, and promoting unhealthy body image of herself.

26 y/o female animated freelance YouTuber from Hawthorne City, California, United States of America (U.S.A.) named 'Illymation', whose real name as Ms. Ilyssa Grace Levy talks about her past struggles with her fat body image and weight, revealed from her own YouTube video late last Dececember 2023 that she started dieting at the age of 11 y/o in either 2008 or 2009 before launching her animated YouTube channel in the early 'Generation Alpha' years in September 2013.

Before social media, when she was born a decade later in the early 2010s under her 'Gen Z' era, despite efforts to address fatphobia-related issues through in-real-life stories of her self-contents, with a few platforms like Facebook and Friendster (now both separately owned by Meta Platforms Inc. [MPi] and the defunct-Friendster Inc. [Fi]), she faced vicious attacks on criticism, when he recently but allegedly pointing their bad finger from 'TBYS' and his pro-democratic supporters from the online bashers, troll of netizens, and death threats.

An anonymous concern from her Tumblr ask blog post, to be obtained and exclusively investigated to OneNETnews… Her personal information like Ms. Levy (Illymation) aside fatphobic concern was recently targeted and compromised when several pro-online troll of netizens from TBYS have now been completely doxxed, leaving in threathen to deplatform her on their video-sharing platform as she potentially claimed that Ms. Levy violated the California's Penal Code #653.2. But Illymation's claims are being nulled, and is refused to watch and listen the insulting commentary video.

Rather than usual, the online attacks from TBYS, aimed at fat-shaming and accepting her on YouTube, alarming serious public health concerns and has raised double red flags. Instead, the fatphobic behavior from TBYS and his pro-supporters against her, has been widely condemned as a result of a newest online harassment campaign in this said date of the late-Q1 2024. Three (3) of the videos on YouTube from TBYS were taken down for a while, and later reuploaded exclusively in his uncensored video discussion on Rumble.

Moreover, Ms. Levy (Illymation) moved out from Hawthorne City to Sacramento, the said state and her country for safety with paid legal fees from her GoFundMe site, as she recently broke the lease on her home apartment and costing her U$D10,000 (or PHP581,100) because of doxxing and fat-shaming backlash from TBYS back-to-back, according from a Reddit comment post by Lokalexabender.

Reports from Zawn Villines of Medical News Today, criticizing someone for their weight like Ms. Levy (Illymation) can lead to serious health and emotional problems. People who face weight discrimination are more likely to suffer from eating disorders, depression and other medical conditions. The American Psychological Association (APA) has pointed out the harmful consequences of criticizing weight and emphasized the need to encourage a positive view of bodies and acceptance.

In the midst of heated debates, Ms. Levy (Illymation) shared her worst sensitivity & anger, worrying about the intense online abuse that she encountered by calling it a fat Californian kid in the early 2010s. She openly talked about this situation, not quite long ago, in a video that was later removed on YT, but then shared on 'Rumble' titled "Woke YouTuber is Trying to Deplatform Me", where she criticized TBYS and his pro-supporters for their harmful actions. Such consistently physical & online attacks in a cybercrime world, affected personally her new mental health, even though she received a lot of support from her followers and other creators on her video-sharing platform.

Looking ahead in the present day on various social media platforms like TikTok & Facebook (owned individually by ByteDance Limited and MPi) and video-sharing platform 'YouTube' (also own by Google's Alphabet), the public health concern of minor or medium-level of obesity is widespread and highlighted by the situation of body shaming and her animator's image of Ms. Levy. It's clear that the desire to meet these unattainable beauty ideals, when you look at the mirror on your stomach fats from side-to-side, along with the widespread culture of dieting, has led to a harmful atmosphere where judgments and criticisms based on their own looks occur.

Our investigative news team of OneNETnews have turned them over for the anti-TBYS fans with a right-wing male suspect to the California Police and the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, the said state and country, advising everyone to mass report his main YouTube channel of TBYS, which being looked into it by the California Police. But, a spokesperson of YouTube had refused to take his channel down and removing their Google account, despite of the cyber criminal cases in the ongoing rivalry on both sides.

It is imperative for people to address the root causes of body shaming combined with her animator's image and promote body neutrality and acceptance of her new self slim body. In an article by Dr. Danielle Kelvas of 'Within Health', dietitian experts and specialist officials highlight the importance of having a positive body image, as well as self-acceptance to combat eating disorders, body discrimination and weight stigma.

Between a male right-wing commentator suspect 'Think Before You Sleep' and one Californian independent animator victim 'Illymation'… Online criminals like this represents a technical foul play with his poisonous corruption points, leaving a victim to immune herself for safety and the unlawful reminders of the damaging effects of online harassment, cyberbullying and discrimination that really needs to cultivate an inclusive and compassionate online community. Hence, the online netizens from YouTube and other social media platforms takes a stand against toxicity and the unregulated online behaviors for the well-being of all individuals, regardless of their size or appearance of Ms. Levy (Illymation).

He will now soon potentially face legal consequences in the press charges convicted by the American court for 'TBYS', resulted in the upcoming termination of his YouTube channel within a shorter months time (without bail or appeal) if criticially found guilty, in relation to fatphobic motives, public harassments, discrimination, cyberbullying and doxxing by online netizens against 'Illymation'.

CONTRIBUTED FILE THUMBNAIL PHOTO COURTESY for REPRESENTATION via YT VIDEO EDITED BY: Rhayniel Saldasal Calimpong (Freelanced Digital Photojournalist for OneNETnews)

SOURCE: *https://rumble.com/v4gg6e3-a-fat-acceptance-cartoon.html [Referenced YT VIDEO #1 via Think Before You Sleep, per relayed video by Rumble] *https://rumble.com/v4jp1hk-woke-youtuber-is-trying-to-deplatform-me.html [Referenced YT VIDEO #2 via Think Before You Sleep, per relayed video by Rumble] *https://rumble.com/v4o5bu8-the-illymation-drama-continues.html [Referenced YT VIDEO #3f via Think Before You Sleep, per relayed video by Rumble] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfG_Er6lyJE [Referenced YT VIDEO via Illymation] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqdwQ-VthGU [Referenced YT VIDEO via Osros] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8nue473BWs [Referenced YT VIDEO #1 via Breone] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6PvpPivdHk [Referenced YT VIDEO #2f via Breone] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOXQQmDvc0I [Referenced YT VIDEO via NoahSamsen] *https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Illymation *https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Think_Before_You_Sleep *https://www.clarip.com/data-privacy/california-consumer-privacy-act-fines/ [Referenced Excerpt Article via Clarip] *https://www.aerlawgroup.com/blog/fact-or-fiction-doxing-someone-can-get-you-arrested/ [Referenced Editorial Article via The Rodriguez Law Group] *https://www.simmrinlawgroup.com/california-penal-code-section-653-2/ [Referenced Editorial Article via Simmrin Law Group] *https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN&sectionNum=653.2 [Referenced Law Article via California Legislative Info Database] *https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fat-shaming-can-lead-to-host-of-health-problems/ [Referenced News Article via CBS News] *https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/effects-of-fat-shaming [Referenced News Article via Medical News Today] *https://withinhealth.com/learn/articles/embracing-body-neutrality-in-eating-disorder-recovery [Referenced News Article via Within Health News Bureau] *https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/03/news-weight-stigma [Referenced Editorial Article via American Psychological Association] *https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1bwko4p/what_is_going_on_with_illymations_drama/ [Referenced Subreddit Ask Post via Reddit's OutOfTheLoop] *https://old.reddit.com/r/saltierthankrayt/comments/1be9jm6/comment/kxm7pwk/ [Referenced Subreddit Caption Post via saltierthankrayt] and *https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fees-for-breaking-lease [Referenced Donation Listing via GoFundMe]

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My Last Five Reads

Spring break didn't hold much for reading. Neither did the second half of march in general, but it did hold some good reads.

The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin - The plot synopsis on the flap/Goodreads told way too much about this book. I think I rated it a 4 instead of a 5 due to waiting for what was divulged. So I will divulge much less. Ady and her mother Sanite are slaves. They spend their days and nights together, and Ady adores the stories her mother tells of the strong women they descended from. Then the two get separated. The plot is good. The writing is top notch. Just don't read anything about it before you start because Ady's story just won't be as poignant.

After Annie by Anna Quindlen - I felt like this book took me forever to read. According to Goodreads, it took 6 days. But to me, that is forever. And it took forever because of the gut-wrenching sadness of the plot. In the first chapter, Annie dies of a brain aneurysm. She leaves behind a husband, four children, and a best friend who don't know what to do without her. But Ali, the oldest of the children at fourteen, is the one who decides she has to be the one in charge of her siblings and the two aforementioned adults. Heartbreaking doesn't even begin to describe the feeling I got each time I opened the book. It's extremely well written (no surprise from this author) and raw with emotion. 4 stars.

The Last One Home by Victoria Helen Stone - This was a pretty average read started just before our spring break trip to Atlanta, read at night at the hotel when I couldn't sleep, and at the airport before we flew home. There are two timelines: present day with Lauren and 35 years ago with her mother, Donna. In the present timeline, Lauren's paternal grandmother has suffered a stroke and can no longer live in the family home. She "wills" it, per se, to Lauren. Her mother, Donna, has ... issues with her father's family. These issues have caused Lauren trouble throughout her life and continue to do so into her adulthood. Secrets are uncovered as Lauren tries to begin a new life away from her ex in this secluded farmhouse. Writing wasn't bad. Plot was a bit unrealistic. Not bad, not good, just average. 3 stars.

The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy - A good with witch novel! At the start, I was a little leery as I wasn't connecting the characters with one another, but once things became clearer, I liked it even more. The plot spans mainly 100 years: 1831 - 1931 in Arkansas. In 1831, we briefly meet Celeste who is giving up her son and an important book seemingly walking off to her death. A hundred years later, Gracelynn and her adoptive grandmother continue to live in the Ozarks among whispers that the "cures" they create make them witches. When an evangelist comes to town, the townspeople no longer need said cures. But even worse, Granny recognizes him. Because in the middle of these 100 years, she saw this man in another form and made a deadly promise. I'll end there because this one is too good to spoil! 4 stars

A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda - The Shah family is living the American dream in a gated community in California. The parents came to America from India, built up a tech-start-up, and have created an ideal life for their children. But at a dinner party one night, they receive a phone call that their 12-year-old son has been arrested. This book was short. Not even 250 pages. And for almost half, the arrest is a mystery as the author spends time building character background. As I read, this irritated me because I so badly wanted to know what was happening to the son. Though I understand now why the author did this: wanting the reader to feel the same anxiety the parents did when they did not know what happened to their son. Once we do find out, the book stays in present-day and focuses on the plot of the legal battle following the arrest and how the event affects the entirety of the family: including the high-school-age daughters. Timely, moving, and an incredible amount of character and plot put into a short amount of pages. 5 stars.

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WSJ: How Trump turned the GOP against helping Ukraine gain additional assistance in a time of dire need

Molly Ball at WSJ:

FORT WASHINGTON, Md.—Billions in potential American aid to Ukraine is stuck in monthslong limbo on Capitol Hill, and to the Trump-loving partisans attending this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, that’s exactly as it should be. [...]

The annual right-wing confab at Maryland’s National Harbor outside Washington was a vivid illustration of the GOP base that has embraced Trump’s controversial stance toward Russia—and led congressional Republicans to move away from their once-solid support for military assistance to the beleaguered American ally. Prospects for the aid package, which also includes military assistance to Israel and Taiwan and humanitarian aid for Gaza, look shaky in the Republican-led House, which is out of session until the end of the month. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) has said the chamber won’t take up the Senate bill, which he acknowledges would likely pass if put on the House floor because most Democrats and many Republicans support it. But opposition from Trump and a growing share of the grassroots GOP base has made the issue toxic and divisive within the party. House Democrats are working to force the bill to the floor through a rarely used procedural gambit called a discharge petition, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

A group called Republicans for Ukraine this week launched a six-figure digital ad campaign in the districts of 10 House Republicans it hopes would support such an effort. A 60-second ad features rank and file GOP voters who argue that not doing so puts American national security at risk. The group’s executive director, the anti-Trump GOP consultant Sarah Longwell, said the ad aims to show that not all the party’s voters are in Trump’s camp on the issue. “Trump’s always been in love with Putin, but now a big chunk of the Republican Party is as well,” Longwell lamented in an interview. “If you grew up with the Cold War as a backdrop, to watch what’s happening to the Republican Party right now is absolutely staggering. Ronald Reagan would be spinning in his grave.”

In recent weeks, Trump has declined to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Feb. 16 death of Alexei Navalny, instead comparing his own multifarious legal issues to the plight of the imprisoned opposition leader. He has said he wouldn’t defend NATO countries that don’t meet their financial commitments to the alliance but would instead encourage Russia “to do whatever the hell they want.” In a CNN town hall in May, he refused to say which side he hoped would win the war. Trump’s remaining primary opponent, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, has harshly criticized his stance. “Trump is siding with a dictator who kills his political opponents,” she said at a recent campaign appearance in South Carolina. “Trump sided with an evil man over our allies who stood with us on 9/11. Think about what that told them.” But Haley’s failure to get traction with that argument—she has yet to win a primary and is polling about 30 points behind Trump in her home state in advance of Saturday’s South Carolina primary—demonstrates that her hawkish views are a minority position in today’s GOP, which is broadly skeptical of foreign aid and unmoved by warnings that Western democracy is at stake.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who once held his GOP flock in near-unanimous accord, now finds himself in a similar position on an issue he has championed as crucial to his political legacy. “We haven’t equipped the brave people of Ukraine, Israel or Taiwan with lethal capabilities in order to win philanthropic accolades,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “We’re not urgently strengthening defenses in the Indo-Pacific because it feels good. We don’t wield American strength frivolously. We do it because it is in our own interest.” Younger Republican senators led by J.D. Vance of Ohio, who was scheduled to speak at CPAC on Friday, reject that argument and instead embrace Trump’s America First views. Once-hawkish senators such as Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio followed Vance’s lead rather than joining McConnell on the foreign-aid vote.

In a December Wall Street Journal poll, 56% of Republicans said the U.S. was doing “too much” to help Ukraine, while 11% said it wasn’t doing enough. When the same question was asked in a Journal poll shortly after the war began, in March 2022, 6% of Republicans said America was doing too much for Ukraine, compared with 61% who said it wasn’t doing enough.

Trump’s relationship with Russia and its autocratic leader has long been controversial. During the 2016 campaign he implored Russia to hack and release Hillary Clinton’s emails, and U.S. intelligence agencies later concluded he benefited from Russian election interference. The early years of Trump’s administration were shadowed by Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s links to Russia, which he called a witch hunt and a hoax. In Helsinki in 2018, he stood beside Putin and declared that he trusted the Russian leader’s word over that of the American intelligence community.

In 2019, Trump was impeached for the first time for allegedly threatening to withhold military assistance from Ukraine unless it provided evidence of what he insisted were Biden’s corrupt activities there. House Republicans have continued to pursue those corruption allegations in an impeachment inquiry that suffered a severe blow when a key witness was accused of fabricating his claims on behalf of Russian intelligence. Now, as Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears its second anniversary, the conflict is mired in a bitter stalemate, and President Volodymyr Zelensky says further aid is desperately needed. The Ukrainian city of Avdiivka recently fell to the Russians in what experts called a direct result of the ammunition shortage created by a lack of U.S. military aid. Ukrainian soldiers have reportedly been spotted scrolling American political news on their phones as they man the war’s front lines, tracking the congressional debate.

2 years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Donald Trump, Trumpist-aligned GOP politicians, and the MAGA influencers in the right-wing media commentariat have turned most Republicans off of supporting further help to aid Ukraine in their war against Russian aggression.

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Hey, saw your tag. I'll try to be brief: the whole current Niji situation started back in December because Selen/Doki wanted to publish a song before Christmas, so she went ahead and got perms from the original artist to try and speed things up- management is very slow in Niji, so this was understandable, and also they've been blocking her attempts at other projects.

Well, they told her no to publishing the video. Selen published anyway, video was privated, she asked fans to reuploaf the video to other channels, and it seems that Selen lost somewhere around $15k on this project and $200k throughout all of 2023. This seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back, so she tried to commit suicide (twice apparently). During her hospital stay, Niji suspends her.

She gets better, sometime around Feb she explains why she was in the hospital. Niji announces her termination. Selen- now Doki- decides to restart her channel from her past life- Dokibird. Before her first stream back she hits 300k, and she seems excited to move on with her life. During this, Niji basically keeps attacking- her termination would be negligible to profits they said (and were wrong), they tried to release new merch, and the big thing: Doki said she was being bullied by management- Niji's termination notice implies it was management AND other talents, seemingly to start a witch hunt. Doki asks her fans to be respectful and not attack anyone, a lot of Niji livers lose a bunch of subs.

Doki's first gaming stream back, which she was excited to do because she wanted to move on and also wanted to play Neopets after years of management telling her no- at the exact same time this stream goes live, Elira's channel- with herself, Vox, and Ike- post an "our side" video where they attempt to defame Doki/Selen as a trouble maker that didn't want to follow rules, could have "easily graduated" whenever, Vox says she tried to dox him with a voice recording but it turned out that was simply a leftover test from an event they were planning, and was never shown to anyone else, even in a legal setting according to Doki. Also, they kind of prove how slow management is by revealing her manager did not get back in touch with her for 30+ hours, I believe, siting the real reasoning for the privating was not perms from the original song writer (who gave the okay), but the fact it had graduated Niji members in the video.

During this video- this is very important- they reveal they were shown documents- documents of which Vox admits he "looked over thoroughly"- it turns out none of them were supposed to see these documents legally. This was between Doki, her lawyer, Niji's lawyers, and I believe management. They were signed and they were legally not allowed to spread this information to anyone besides the above parties, as it contained various information such as Doki's legal and medical information (big, big legal no no to spread that without permission).

This also has implications that those three were the bullies Nijisanji outed in Selen's termination notice, but again, nothing is said in stone.

Icing on the cake: Anycolor (owns Niji) CEO makes a public apology in a heavily scripted video from a teleprompter, apologizing first to investors, then apologizing for "poor choice of words" essentially.

Doki/Selen reveals she and her lawyer planned for some sort of attack from Niji and other Livers, so now things get serious with receipts she has. She was willing to sweep it all under the rug to move on with her life, but they wouldn't let her.

Now we're at this situation being such a dumpster fire that, again, it's being used in law schools for mock trials. Various lawyers on the web basically prove that this violates multiple country privacy laws on top of the other things Doki has on them.

Now you're caught up as far as I'm aware. A lot of allegations of poor management and inter talent bullying seems backed up by things other ex Niji talents have said in other spaces in the past (such as Mysta/K9 Kuro and Nina/Matara Kan being actually surprised that management actually were responsive and did their jobs at Vshojo), and with the recent wave of graduations from Mika, Pomu, soon Kyo if I'm understanding correctly, and the silence of various talents including Scarle (she's currently on watch after liking a comment saying "KuroSanji"- basically calling Nijisanji a Black Company. Said comment was deleted and she's missed 1 members stream and 1 scheduled stream after seemingly isolating herself with a friend), it seems that NijiEN is not a very good company to be employed with.

Hope this helps! If I'm forgetting anything or if I made an error, someone feel free to correct me.

wow very thorough!!! thank you it makes sense to me!!!